Fla. Record for Admissions; NZ's New Lockdown; Russia OKs Untested Vaccine
(MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. New COVID-19 cases in Florida are starting to come down, but on Monday,...
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Op-Ed: The Awkward Truth About Schools and COVID-19
(MedPage Today) — Mikhail Varshavski, DO, who goes by “Doctor Mike” on social media, is a board-certified family medicine physician at the Atlantic Health System’s...
The Safety of Maternal Influenza Vaccination and Infant Health Outcomes
The Safety of Maternal Influenza Vaccination and Infant Health Outcomes Source link...
Oxford Nanopore Technologies partners with UK Government to roll out LamPORE, a new generation of COVID-19 test
Oxford Nanopore today announces an agreement with the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, to roll out its novel LamPORE test. Source link...
Seqirus Begins Shipping 2020-21 Influenza Vaccines to U.S. Market
The CDC said it is concerned about the affects of influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic and urged health care providers to vaccinate against flu. Source...
Which HCPs Are Most Likely to Get COVID Vaccine?
Medscape’s reader poll also found that few respondents think there will be a readily available vaccine by the end of 2020, but most think one...
COVID-19 pandemic is "one big wave" says WHO
The COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world has to date infected over 16.95 million individuals and taken more than 665,000 lives. Now the World...
SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.
Related Articles SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues. Cell. 2020...
COVID-19 Tests Will Soon Cover Flu Too, Giroir Says
(MedPage Today) — WASHINGTON — Future COVID-19 tests will also be able to test for influenza A and B, according to Trump administration “testing czar”...
Op-Ed: Should We Let Our Kids Go Back to School?
(MedPage Today) — We need to understand that the goal is mitigating, not eliminating, COVID-19 risk, says ZDoggMD, adding that the risks of children missing...
The UK hibernated pandemic influenza research portfolio: triggered for COVID-19
Simpson, CR; Thomas, BD; Challen, K; Angelis, DD; Fragaszy, E; Goodacre, S; Hayward, A; … Knight, M; + view all Simpson, CR; Thomas, BD; Challen,...
CDC Sidelined on COVID Data; Nursing Homes to Get Rapid Testing; Ginsburg Hospitalized
(MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Hospitals are now being ordered to send all information on COVID-19 to a...
Parental Hesitancy About Routine Childhood and Influenza Vaccinations: A National Survey
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization has designated vaccine hesitancy as 1 of the 10 leading threats to global health, yet there is limited...
What Evidence Is Aiding School Reopening Decisions?
(MedPage Today) — As school officials debate whether to reopen this fall, physicians, teachers, and a prominent ethicist markedly disagreed on whether sending children back...
CT of COVID-19 versus CT of influenza virus pneumonia
An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in CT findings between coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia and influenza virus pneumonia found that...
Establishment of global surveillance network can warn about next pandemic
The virus that causes COVID-19 probably originated in wild bats that live in caves around Wuhan, China, and may have been passed to a second...
Xofluza Prophylaxis Mostly Stopped Flu in Japanese Families
(MedPage Today) — Baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza) appeared effective in preventing household contacts of flu patients from developing infections themselves, a randomized trial in Japan showed....
Research suggests protective effect of influenza vaccine against COVID-19 severity and mortality
A new study involving over 92,000 patients with COVID-19 in Brazil shows that the odds of severe disease, ventilatory support requirement, and death are reduced...
Clinically approved drugs could disrupt SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking Cells
An international team of researchers has analyzed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins in its target cells. Source link...